You're Telling Me... I'm a Mermaid?

Chapter 20 - Caz's Secret

April POV

  The plane is crashing?

  I quickly move to hug Caz. Small tears fall from my eyes.

  Caz looks over at me, hugging me back.

  "Calm down," He says in my ear. I sniffle, "It'll be alright."

  "We're gonna die," I cry.

  "I'll protect you," Caz whispers, hugging me tighter.

  "How? You're gonna die too," I wipe my nose.

  "As long as you live," he says.

  I could tell it was beginning to be harder for him to stay positive.

  "If you die, I don't wanna live," I say.

  "Then we can both die," Caz says. I feel a tear fall on my back.

  "Brace yourselves," The voice over the speaker says.

  The ground rushes closer and closer.

  And then I see it.

  "Caz! A river!" I exclaim, kissing his lips.

  He hugs me as we hit land. 

  We land just to the right of the water.

  All I remember before I blank out is Caz trying to revive me.

Caz POV

  "April!" I gasp as she falls into a lump on the floor.

  I look around the plane to find everyone else dead too.

  I scoop her limp body into my arms and I leave the burning plane

  Policemen, Ambulances, and Firemen are showing up. I run to the first ambulance I see.

  "Excuse me, but she needs help," I say and they cut me off.

  "Are you immediate family?" She asks, taking April.

  "No, but I," They cut me off again.

  "Only immediate family allowed on the ambulance," They say.

  "Well, she's an orphan and has no family. I'm her boyfriend and there is no way in the world she's going alone," I yell, hopping on the truck.

  "I'll tell you the truth when you recover," I say, placing a hand on her heart.

  I begin to lose hope.

  Until I feel one, faint heartbeat.

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  The doctors rush April into the hospital and into the ER.

  "Sir, you need to wait out here," One of the doctors said.

  "No way in this world am I leaving her side," I say, determined.

  "Sir if you will just listen to us," the same doctor says, as the others wheel April in.

  "I'm not leaving her," I say. The anger boils inside of me.

  "You have to," He says.

  "I don't," I say, walking in and sitting on one of the chairs. I watch as they operate on her, and  her faint heartbeat becomes bigger and brighter.

  I let out a long sigh of relief.

  The doctors leave the room and I move to one of the chairs closer to her bed.

  Her small body breaths in and out.

  "I'm so glad you aren't dead."

April POV

    I wake up to find myself in a hospital.

  "It's okay," A voice says, hugging me. I look to my right to see Caz. I hug him back.

  "Caz," I say, as he lets go.

  "I promised I would tell you why I'm not hurt," Caz breathes. I assume he means when I was    almost dead.

  "I have a special condition, where both of my parents were humans, but I was born a landman," Caz says, "So any time that happens, that landmaid or man is basically immune to pain."

  "That's so cool! But then how do you die?" I ask.

  "I can only die of old age. I can't be murdered, get a disease or anything like that," Caz explains.

  "That's so cool!" I exclaim.

  "Thanks. I also have a younger brother. He was supposed to be my twin, but something  happened where he wasn't ready to come out, so he stayed in an extra two months. But by then my mother was terribly sick and died in childbirth. My father disappeared somewhere. They sent us to an orphanage and I escaped when I got the chance," Caz says.

  "Did you get to pick your name?" I ask.

  "No. My mom gave me the name Caspian and my dad named my twin Noah before he fled us," Caz says.

  "Noah?" I ask. He nods.

  "Yeah, why," Caz asks cautiously.

  "Noah was one of my best friends back at the orphanage," I say.

  "So we lived in the same orphanage for about five years?" Caz says. We both burst out with laughter.

  I scoot over so Caz can lay down beside me on the bed, and he climbs on.

  I snuggle my body up next to him.

  "What did they say was broken?" Caz asks.

  "Nothing, I just almost died," I say casually.

  "Oh, I see. And who saved you?" Caz asks. I know he's looking for praise, so...

  "The doctors," I say, smiling.

  "Really April? You would have died without me," Caz says seriously.

  "I'm kidding," I laugh. He kisses my forehead.

  The doctor who Caz said argued with him walked in.

  "The girl is discharged," he grunted and left.

  Caz picks me up bridal style and carries me all the way through the hospital.

  I read the hotel name.

  "Westerville Medicine."